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AUTOMATIC CONTINUOUS RAIL. No. 595,248. Patented Dec. 7,1897.

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JESSE S. MALIN, OF PORTLAND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ISAIAII D. IVIEST, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,248, dated December '7, 1897. Application filed January 26, 1897. Serial No. 620,794. (No model.)

To (All whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEssE S. MALIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Jay and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Continuous Rails; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to a novel construction in a railroad-track; and it consists in the features of construction hereinafter fully described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view showing the railroad-crossing to which this invention is applied with certain parts broken away. for convenience of illustration, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to said drawings, 1 and 2 indicate the rails of two tracks that cross each other.

It is the object of this invention to provide devices whereby the rail-track crossing may be made continuous, and the construction is such that the parts that serve to make a corn tinuous rail are operated by the passage of the engine or cars.

In said drawings, 3 indicates rail-sections that are pivoted at the angle formed bythe intersecting rails and whose outer edges are curved to fit the curved inner edges of the sections of the rail. These sections 3 are pivoted in any desirable and durable manner and are connected together, so that they move in unison. It is seen that the tracks cross each other at right angles, and the said railsections 3 are so constructed that they turn so as to stand in alinenient with either of the intersecting tracks. For this purpose the pivotblocks at of said rail-sections 3 are connected together by the rods 5--thatis to say, the diagonally opposite pivot-blocks are so connected, whereby they move in unison. From each pivot-block at the intersection of two rails are the connecting-rods 6 and 7, that extend the same distance along the rails leading to said pivot-block. In this way it is seen that adjacent to the crossing each track is provided with the levers 8, that are pivoted adjacent to the rail and are connected with these rods 6 and 7. The connections between the different parts are such that when the rail sections stand in alineinent with any particular track the levers 8 of the rail of the said track lie flush with the upper face thereof, while the said levers of the track that is disconnected stand above the face thereof. In this way it is seen that a train of cars passing along the track the rails of which are broken presses upon the levers of this track and through the interniediacy of the rods 6, 7, and 5 turn the pivot-blocks at and the rail-sections 3, so that the rails of the track are made continuous, while at the same time the levers 8 of the other or intersecting track are raised. In this Way it is obvious that a track is either continuous or that the levers 8 are raised above the track and in the path of a passing train, whereby they can be acted upon to turn the rail-sections.

As a further and separate improvement I contemplate making the rails of the track so that the levers stand Within the sides of the heads thereof. As shown in Fig. 1, the side of the rail is cut away, as at 9, to receive the lever, which is pivoted thereto and to a side plate 10, fastened to the side of the rail. The side plate 10 while serving as a support for the pivot of the lever also serves to fill the opening made by cutting away, as shown at 9.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with the intersecting rails of railroad crossings, said rails being cut away at their points of intersection, pivoted rail sections at the points of intersection of said rails, the diagonally opposite pivoted rail-sections being connected with each other so that they move in unison, and pivoted levers situated at the side of each rail of the track and at each side of the crossing, each of said levers being connected with a pivoted rail-section whereby each of said pivoted rail-sections is connected with two of said levers.

2. The combination with a rail, of a cutaway portion at one side thereof, a pivoted specification in the presence of two subscriblever situated within said cutaway portion ing' witnesses.

and pivoted between the rail and a side plate I situated Within said cut-away portion and JESSE MALIN' 5 flush with the upper side of the rail and se- WVitnesses:

cured thereto. MICHAEL DIEHL,

In testimony whereof I have signed this A. WIEsT. 

